1. Newly discovered variant of oesophageal atresia: 'Type Y'
- Author
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Dina Fouad, Nordeen Bouhadiba, Alexander Macdonald, and Iain Yardley
- Subjects
Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Paediatric surgery ,Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Fistula ,Infant, Newborn ,General Medicine ,New variant ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Bronchoscopy ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Atresia ,MULTIPLE VARIATIONS ,medicine ,Humans ,Female ,Incomplete fistula ,business ,Esophageal Atresia ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Multiple variations of oesophageal atresia (OA) have been described. We present two cases of a new variant of OA (‘Type Y’) where the fistula enters the trachea in a Y-shaped configuration. Awareness of this is important. Bronchoscopy will reveal a single fistula opening and therefore there will initially be no suspicion of anatomical variation. It may be that only one bifurcation of the ‘Y’ fistula is patent which poses a risk of incomplete fistula closure.
- Published
- 2019